Catcher Ryan Jeffers, out since July with a broken thumb, hit three homers in his nine-game rehab stint in St. Paul.
The 6-2 sophomore forward is the most veteran player on the Minnesota team. She played in 30 games last season, starting 16 times.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has abandoned, for now, his push to speed up the permitting process for energy projects, easing the Senate's path toward passing a stopgap spending bill that would keep the federal government running when the fiscal year ends at midnight Friday.
When the Metrodome in Minneapolis started showing its age, Bennett led an unsuccessful campaign to build a stadium in Arden Hills.